Hardrive drives wow how far they've come

[computer2slow]

[nyquil junkie]

my first computer had no hard drive. Back in the stone age when we all said "100MB?? we will never need that much storage space!"

To boot the computer took a while with a giant floppy disk....
The screen was in black and white text.

The first HD I put on a computer was 2MB.. or maybe 4 mb.
we thought we hit the big time there.

My newest laptop has a 160GB HD and widescreen (color no less!)
yeah you aint kiddin.... we have run far, and fast.

I remember when "the internet" was phoning up BBS phone numbers. you didnt surf from site to site.... you used a modem that was somewhere between dead slow and dead slow to phone each "site" (a BBS server).

only the big boys and the government had "the internet".

I remember how tripped out we were to get windows 3.1 and how windows 95 was "that great thing we gotta get someday".

all that way in what.... 20+ yrs?
yikes.

whats gonna be in the next 20 yrs.... micro-usb ports in your skull you get installed at a store in the mall, as easy as you get your ears pierced?

I'm there.... plug me in.
lol

[Ibsyj23]

I still remember my brother buying 512k ram for his atari st, and this was the late 90's!
more recently i had a pc with only a 10gb hdd, and now ive got a crazily good value 500gb beast!

the prices are getting scary now as well, a pc with my spec would already be around half the price i paid for it just over 2 years ago.

[markstevens2000]

I think the rule (from the 60's) about computing power doubling every 18 months has remained true. One could argue that storage capacity does the same.
I remeber buying 32K of RAM to increase a ZX Spectrum from 16K to 48K back in 1984 - about £50 that cost !

[ozzybuds]

I remember when one of my mates got a floppy drive for his Commodore 64. It was the best thing since sliced bread. Games would load so fast compared to the crappy old tape drive.

Originally Posted by markstevens2000

I think the rule (from the 60's) about computing power doubling every 18 months has remained true. One could argue that storage capacity does the same.
I remeber buying 32K of RAM to increase a ZX Spectrum from 16K to 48K back in 1984 - about £50 that cost !

You're talking about Moore's law. It has roughly remained true for some hardware but certainly not for others.

[nferno]

a friend of mine just bought a desktop with 4 TB of HD storage and 8Gb of RAM, and i told him it will be outdated in 2 yrs

[jakeometer]

I have this picture of a 5MB "Hard Drive" from 1956 (apparently) on my Hard Drive (oh the irony).

5mb 1956 harddrive.jpg

Oh and that image was in a folder of nearly 1500 others, yes i was there a while lol.

[ken]